Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Live dangerously and you live right.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Let there be truth between us.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.